A so called 'artist' called Guillermo Habacuc Vargas from Costa Rica has recently been invited to receive an award ' Bienal Centroamericana Honduras 2008'
Vargos was allowed, by a Costa Rican gallery, to exhibit a stray dog that he had taken from the street. A piece entitled 'you are as you are', this dog was tied up by a rope and left there to starve underneath the title of the piece written just out of reach from him in dogfood stuck to the wall. This defenseless dog starved to death in this gallery as onlookers took in the exhibition without intervention.

I find this tragic event disgusting and unacceptably cruel, as I am sure many of you will. THIS IS NOT ART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you find this hard to believe you can view the exhibition at the link below.